Windy Franklin Martinez brings more than 24 years of professional experience as a faculty member and administrator of student services in the California community colleges.  She received a BA in Economics and an MS in Rehabilitation Counseling from San Francisco State University, and a PhD in Adult & Higher Education from Oregon State University.  Her teaching interests include student development, administrative leadership development, and the psycho-social aspects of disability. 

Jennifer Lyons has more than 25 years of finance and investments, teaching, and education administration experience. Her professional background includes money management, investment banking, equity research, real estate finance and public accounting. She has an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a BA in Business/Economics from UC Santa Barbara, a teaching credential in Mathematics and a CPA. At UC Berkeley Extension, she served as program director and oversaw curriculum and online course development for the math and statistics courses. She has taught mathematics and finance to high school and adult college learners in a variety of settings and currently teaches an applied finance/MBA prep class at UC Berkeley Extension and a similar course for UC Berkeley’s Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) for accelerated high school students, where she also serves on the advisory board. She volunteers actively, teaching for Mount Tamalpais College, and co-developed a financial literacy and job skills series of workshops at the prison. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Cal Performances, a judge and mentor for UC Berkeley’s Big Ideas social entrepreneurship competition, and has served as a team liaison for UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Social Sector Solutions program. She is passionate about criminal justice reform and support of the arts. She lives in Berkeley.

Rich Lyons was recently appointed chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer for the Berkeley campus. In 2018 he concluded eleven years as dean of Berkeley’s Haas School. His early research was in international finance; recent work explores how leaders drive innovation and set culture. From 2006-08 he was Goldman Sachs’ chief learning officer. Changes at Haas under his deanship include a new building, a suite of dual degrees with STEM fields, and a focus on culture. Haas drove a set of Defining Principles – Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, Beyond Yourself – deeply into admissions and other processes.

Sean Mendy is an entrepreneur In residence at Sixth Street Partners and the founder of Concrete Rose Capital, an investment platform closing the financial and social capital gap for underrepresented entrepreneurs. He previously worked to close the opportunity gap for low income students of color in Silicon Valley at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula (BGCP). At BGCP, he led fundraising initiatives generating $50 million to grow the organization into the largest youth serving education nonprofit in Silicon Valley.

Mendy has additional experience in the technology and philanthropy sectors through roles at Causes and as an advisor to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. He earned his BA from Cornell University, then advanced degrees in education policy and business from Stanford and the University of Southern California. He sits on the Board of Directors of StreetCode Academy, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, and the University of Southern California’s Masters of Science in Social Entrepreneurship graduate program.

David Stiepleman is co-President and co-founding partner of Sixth Street Partners, the global finance and investment business with over $47 billion in assets under management. He has been a cross-border corporate lawyer, senior executive, and business builder for over 20 years, starting and running businesses, and representing clients in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Stiepleman received his BA in French and Political Science from Amherst College, and his law degree from Columbia Law School.